Combined shade-holder and pole.



P. STAREK.

COMBINED SHADEHOLDER AND POLE.

APPLICATION HLED MAR. 26, 1914.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

Guam/wa U ww ltd PETER STAREK, 01F CHROME, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED SHADE-HOLDER AND PQL'JE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 113, 1915..

Application filed March as, 1914. Serial No. $127,341.

To ZZZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, PETER STAREK, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Chrome, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Shade-Holders and Curtain-Poles, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combined shade holder and curtain pole.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a curtain pole for a window adapted for incasing a complete shade roller structure and thereby protecting the same from dust and providing a dust-proof case for the entire rolledup portion of the shade at all times.

A further object is to provide a curtain pole consisting of hinged sections and having the curtain mounted upon one section thereof while the shade roller is journaled within the pole, the other section of which is adapted as a dustproof cover for inclosing the rolled up portion of the shade.

A still further object is to provide a dustproof casing for a shade and in which the shade roller is removable while the curtain may be supported by the pole in the usual manner.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood. the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claim.

n the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughoutthe several views :-Figure 1 is an endelevation of'the improved device illustrated as mounted upon a window and having a shade and a curtain supported thereby. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one end portion of the curtain pole with the cover section inits open position. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the device showing the shade as partially unrolled. Fig. 4 is a similar view with the shade completely incased within the pole, the hinged section being shown in dotted lines in its open position, and, Fig. 5 is an elevation view looking into the pole of the end opposite to that shown in Fig. 2, the cover section being open.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the window casing 10 is disclosed provided adjacent the top thereof with opposite brackets 11 for mounting thereon horizontally the supporting pole 12. The pole consists of ornamental end knobs 13 to which one section 14 of the pole is permanently secured by means of suitable holdfast devices 15 extending through said section and into the reduced inner ends 16 of said knobs and whereby the section 14 which is semicircular in cross-section is supported as shown in Figs. 3 and -1 and thereby constituting the rear wall of a two-part tubular pole, a frontsection 17 of which is mounted thereon. by hinges 18 arranged at the top of the pole and connecting the two semi-tubular sections together. One end of the pole is provided in the reduced knob portion 16 with a perforation or socket 19 as shown in Fig. 2 while the opposite knob portion car- 'ries the plate 20 with a T-shaped slot 21 and whereby a shade roller 22 of the usual construction is adapted to be mounted between said end knobs and within the curtain pole by an engagement of the usual projectingend members of the roller with said socket and slot. within the tubular curtain pole. the shade 23 is adapted to move outwardlv and inwardly of the hollow pole through the longitudinal side slot 24: formed therein bv means of coiiperating cut-away portions 25 in the adjacent contacting edges of the twopole sections while the window curtain 26 is secured to the movable hinge section 17, preferably at a point adjacent the top thereof as at 27, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 1.

From this detailed description of the invention, it will be readily apparent that with the shade 23 adapted to be rolled and uni-oiled upon the roller 22 within the pole.

With the shade roller mounted such operations .are freely accomplished While the forms of the invention herein shown and described are What are believed to be preferable embodiments thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that various forms: and modifications thereof may be had Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed as new is In a device of the kind described, a shade roller support and guard comprising spaced end knobs, one of said knobs being provided at its inner end with an axial recess, the other of said knobs being provided at its inner end with a T-shaped slot extending radially therein, said recess and slot being adapted to removably receive the pintles of signature \Vi tncsses ADAM KoWocLsKY, SAMUEL C. C. HARRIS. 

